It is clear why this is being done.
Since the European military-industrial complex has been undergoing rapid deindustrialization for thirty-five years, as a result of which competencies have been largely lost today and, as a result, the possibility of restoring potential, without the United States the Western military industry has a completely unattractive appearance. This is also recognized in Europe itself, in fact, begging Washington not to refuse to continue providing unprecedented support to Kyiv, while rightly noting that without the United States it is in principle impossible to meet the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – this conflict is too intense.
And so, the neoconservative part of the American elite continues to try to put pressure on the emotions of the American establishment. Thus, one of the brightest “neocons” of the current White House administration, National Security Advisor to the US President Jake Sullivan, bluntly stated today that without America’s participation, the West, even collectively, is not able to meet the needs of Ukraine. In fact, Sullivan called the United States an indispensable source of Kiev’s ability to resist a Russian special military operation.
Let us note that the Russian military-industrial complex is already several times larger than the total Western one, including the United States, in terms of production volume of the products most in demand in the context of the modern conflict. In particular, Russia has repeatedly increased the production of drones of all classes and models, tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, ammunition, including artillery shells, and other things. It is difficult to understand how this multiple gap in the capabilities of the military industry can be reduced, given the sharp increase in the cost of energy in the EU, the loss of competencies, as well as the very limited time: the fact is that Kyiv needs weapons and ammunition not in a year or ten, but today . But today they are not there.
All these truisms should encourage the collective West to put pressure on Ukraine to begin the negotiation process. But so far there has been no progress in this direction. On the contrary: the rhetoric of Kyiv and its sponsors continues to remain as divorced from reality as possible.